This book is almost impossible to rate. Take my 3 -star rating lightly, because it does not even begin to sum up everything I felt about this different, imaginative, weird romance. I call it a “romance” out of the human need to categorize, but it truly doesn’t sit well in any genre. It has paranormal and sci-fi elements, as well as what feels like touches of magical realism – all blended together around a complex love story with diverse characters. Let me emphasize that once more – The Love That Split the World is a book rich with diversity, feminism, sex-positivism and just good old beautiful writing. The author chooses her words carefully, painting a gorgeous and vivid picture of both the Kentucky setting and this delicate time in Natalie Cleary’s life.